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Astronauts Use Toothbrush to Fix International Space Station
When it comes to the care and maintenance of the International Space Station, you’d probably expect astronauts to be armed with an arsenal of expensive, high-tech tools. (And hey: they are.) But faced...
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WATCH: Astronaut Ron Garan and TIME Editor Jeff Kluger Discuss Social Media...
Today at 1 p.m. Eastern time (noon central), TIME senior editor and space expert Jeff Kluger will sit down with NASA astronaut Ron Garan to discuss how Twitter and Facebook are impacting how word...
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WATCH: Space Shuttle Endeavour Soars Over Los Angeles
Piggybacked on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the spacecraft soared over the Hollywood Hills, the skyscrapers of downtown L.A., City Hall, and in a particularly photo-worthy moment, past the iconic white...
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Hubble Telescope Captures Farthest View of the Universe Yet
They say the average picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, then the photo that the Hubble Space Telescope recently delivered is worth a thousand times that. The photo gives humankind a...
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How Much Would It Cost to Blast Your House into Space?
We all have those days when we’re sitting around thinking, Man, I really want to launch my entire home into space; I wonder how much that costs. O.K., maybe those days are rare (or nonexistent), but...
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Mars Curiosity Rover Detects Bright Object on the Red Planet
The Mars Curiosity Rover has detected a glittery object in the Martian sand. But what is it?
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Alert Bruce Willis: Two Asteroids Pass Close to Earth
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s 2012 XE54 and 4179 Toutatis! Two asteroids will be buzzing past our planet on Tuesday, giving astronomers something to talk about around the dinner...
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Watch: Stunning Solar Eruption Bigger than 20 Earths (No, It Won’t Kill You)
It’s got a fear-inducing name, but don’t worry: it won’t actually hurt us — or actually come anywhere near our humble orbiting planet. As if we needed another reminder, that gentle warm, bright yellow...
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NASA Beams Mona Lisa Image Into Space
The most well-known portrait of a woman in the world is over the moon — literally — after NASA managed to beam an image of the Mona Lisa directly to a satellite orbiting the lunar body. How far did she...
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Deep Space Industries: the Company that Wants to Mine Space
“If you can dream it, you can be it.” So go the opening remarks on the website of Deep Space Industries, a newly established space exploration company which announced at a Tuesday press conference that...
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PHOTOS: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Tweets Stunning Images from Orbit
Sure, sometimes Twitter feels like one big maelstrom of drivel — a digital platform for utter minutiae. But at other times the social media platform can be ridiculously awesome, especially when used...
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NASA ‘Super-Tiger’ Balloon Breaks Two Records Soaring over Antarctica
You’d think the records would have to do with a figure like “50 million” — the number of cosmic rays an NASA science ballon drifting over Antarctica recently intercepted — but it actually involves a...
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WATCH LIVE: Asteroid Whizzes By Earth
The day has finally come: the asteroid known as 2012 DA14 passes as close as 27,700 kilometers from the Earth’s surface. The 50-meter space rock will come closer than any previous asteroid (since...
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Reading While Eating for Apr. 11: The Russian Bear
Oops: Finland has apologized to Russian President Vladimir Putin for accidentally placing him on a secret register of criminals who cannot enter the country. (TIME.com via Associated Press) Bear All:...
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NASA Wants You: The Original 1959 Astronaut Job Description
If you were an eager young government employee in the 1950s who wanted to become an astronaut, here’s what you would’ve had to do to qualify. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration...
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NASA-Funded 3D Food Printer: Could It End World Hunger?
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, we were introduced to food replicators: devices capable of fiddling with reality at the subatomic level to reproduce everything edible, from steaks to snacks to...
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Sending Your Ashes into Space Just Got a Lot Cheaper
Want to host a burial that’s out of this world? There’s an app for that. Established in 2013, Elysium Space — named after the state of perpetual happiness in Greek mythology (and not after the...
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Frog Photobombs NASA Rocket Launch
Looks like a frog tried to hop on NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which blasted off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on September 6. “The photo team...
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NASA’s New Heartbeat Sensor Could Save Lives
A new tool from NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security could help emergency responders locate victims following major disasters. The portable device, Finding Individuals for Disaster and...
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